Screen LibraryCreating Low Carbon Cities /
This book addresses key topics in the current deliberations and debates on low carbon cities that are underway globally. Contributions by experts from around the world focus on the key factors required for creating low carbon cities. These include appropriate infrastructure, ensuring co-benefits of...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
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| Publisher Address: | Cham : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49730-3 |
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This book addresses key topics in the current deliberations and debates on low carbon cities that are underway globally. Contributions by experts from around the world focus on the key factors required for creating low carbon cities. These include appropriate infrastructure, ensuring co-benefits of climate actions, making best use of knowledge and information, proper accounting of emissions, and social factors such as behavioral change. Readers will gain a better understanding of these drivers and explore potential transformation pathways for cities. Particular emphasis is given to the curre |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (X, 205 pages) : illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9783319497303 |
| Index Number: | GE195 |
| CLC: | F061.3 |
| Contents: | Chapter1. Challenges and opportunities for transition to low carbon cities -- Chapter2. Big data, people and low carbon cities -- Chapter3. Co-benefits and co-costs of climate action plans for low-carbon cities -- Chapter4. Optimizing Water-Energy-Carbon Nexus in Cities for Low Carbon Development -- Chapter5. Grassroots environmentalism and low-carbon cities -- Chapter6. Emerging low-carbon urban mega-projects -- Chapter7. Energy consumption and emissions assessment in cities: an overview -- Chapter8. Low carbon urban design: potentials and opportunities -- Chapter9. Low carbon cities: The C |